köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dlmnk' /dramanag/, “wormwood”), formed + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-k' /-ag/) from a Proto-Iranian term for this plant *dramanah m.
köken: According to Tenishev et al, from a Mongolic source, from Proto-Mongolic *erme (“wormwood”) – compare Mongolian эрэм (erem, “wormwood”). Note however Hungarian üröm. Cognate with Tatar әрем (ärem, “wormwood”).
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish malørt, malyrt, from Old Norse malurt. Equivalent to mal (“moth”) + ört (“herb”), from being used against moths. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk malurt.
aile: malört i glädjebägaren
Ofärd och split / bringar jag asarna / malört blandar jag i mjödet.
Chornobyl, Chernobyl (a city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine)
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian Чорно́быль (Čornóbylʹ). From чорно́биль (čornóbylʹ, “mugwort”), from чо́рне (čórne, “black”, neuter of чо́рний (čórnyj)) + билля́ (bylljá, “grass blades or stalks”).
köken: From Proto-Slavic *pelynъ m (attested also as *pelynь f), probably from the root of Bulgarian паля (palja, “to set on fire, to ignite”), пепел (pepel, “ashes”), due to the bitter taste of mugwort. Compare Bulgarian горчи́вка (gorčívka, “felwort”) from горчи́в (gorčív, “bitter”). Other proposals include relation with Proto-Slavic *pelvelъ (“weed”), *polvъ (“pale”).
Inherited from Old Spanish alosna, from Latin aloxina, plural of aloxinum. Cf. also the related aloja, from a Vulgar Latin root *aloxia, from Greek ἀλόη (alóē) ὀξεῖα (oxeîa).